Yet another cryptocurrency fraud; this one despite the smart contracts being carefully reviewed

A report from the brave world of unregulated finance meeting the art world

A distributed database built on top of SQLite with Raft consensus

The lightweight database now has an option for strict typing of data

This bold new financial fraud world turns out to be a bonanza for terrorist and hate groups.

Laughable $10M settlement was challenged, currently bumped up to $100M

Some sleazeball is selling NFTs representating people without their permission

Interesting selection of mostly new-to-me maps

Article about the WordPress founder and his different kind of tech empire

Assert ownership of digital assets without planet-destroying blockchain transactions

Mint any new category of NFTs by cloning someone else's NFTs.

A practical guide (they'll accept anything that looks like an email address)

More on the 19th century courtesy of the trade, the informal American publishing arrangement that predates modern copyright

19th century American intellectual property. No formal copyright, but an informal agreement to share wealth

An eccentric 19th century Italian castle with interesting design

Major investigation into various times the US military killed civilians

A good balanced overview of what the digital art market is like today

An exploration of what could have happened; if leftist activists had taken the bait and fought the coup, it might have escalated terrifyingly

Excellent analysis of the depiction of older queer people in movies

New streaming system uses OBS, a GPL video system. So far they have not complied with the GPL license

December update seems to have broken the cell phone radio for many users, at least in Europe

Unicode weirdness; flags are a combination of two separate characters, leading to strange behavior

Some data on the rise of "rug pulls"

A privacy-preservation technique where subdomains aren't sent up the recursive resolver chain

Another Apple image decoder bug, this image looks different depending on whose PNG decoder you use.

What looks like an illegal investment deal

New feature of Powertoys causes a sort of mouse spotlight when you press control twice. Annoying, easy to turn off.

The ~2013 era replacement for whois, returns data in structured format

Neat learning tool; modify your own subdomain and see how it behaves

A collection of NFT and Web3 horror stories

Thoughtful and clear comparison of the two deep learning frameworks.

Details on trying to order 300 $0.60 oscillators across shortages and misconfigured websites

A CPU built in Minecraft redstone. 8 bits, 1Hz, more or less as powerful as early home computers

More details of behind the scenes at Trump's coup. I'm astonished at the way the Fox News journalists are colluding with Trump to try to manage events.

Thin on reasons *why* you would want to do this, but the instructions for abomination are detailed

Excellent, upsetting summary of how we are about to lose America

New-to-me, a collection of high quality science fiction short films

excellent parody of various authors writing a "u up?" 3am text

Videos you play on your phone and put your optical mouse on, to simulate mouse movement

High fees, bad acquisition targets mean the latest trend in going public has been bad for investors

Powerpoint from inside the Trump Administration, a plan to declare a national emergency and subvert the election

Engineering notes on seamlessly changing projects on a modern web map

The idiosyncratic use of a programming language in the financial world

Details of a lending company that claims 10%+ returns on "safe" loans

Detailed measurements from various hardware models

Literal spaghetti, the food, claims to be "blockchain certified". The linked attestations about the spaghetti do not work.

Detailed analysis of a new use of NFTs in videogames and how it makes little sense

Major milestone, a second official programming language for the kernel

New release of Natural Earth includes alternate datafiles for different points of view for disputed territorial borders

The remarkable metaphysics of scented candles

Predict solar power generation at a site, adjusts for day, orientation, and weather

Detailed analysis of the coming end of America's democracy

Browser extension that reskins Wikipedia pages for desktop browsers

Details of the reality of what happens when you update a DNS record

Details of the deadly inadequate system they market as "Autopilot" and "Full Self Driving"

A map of houses with particularly nice decorations

A simple statement

This new decentralized infrastructure sure is great

Portfolio of a friend of mine who is doing interesting work combining photography with generative art algorithms

Effort to quantify the impact on society Covid has, measure it over time

Long detailed article on all the science the new space telescope will enable

A summary of the science and the development of the amazing new space telescope

Nice simple post about what it's like putting solar on a home in 2021

Musician reads out Elon Musk with a Marxist analysis inflected by Succession

US military says that their satellites have been other "non-kinetic" attack for years now

Excellent orientation to the basics of the discussion. Also a nice ending: "Why am I in this awful, ugly, unfun casino in the first place?? Is there a way out of the casino??"

Trump depravity extends to knowingly exposing colleagues and political opponents to a dangerous disease

Suck's trading card parody of the tech industry from the late 90s; trading cards of all your founder and technorati insiders.

Engineer at networking company alleged to have attacked his own company, then blackmailed them

Jaw-dropping buffer overrun in an 18 year old security library. C is a bad language.

Balanced, detailed article on the impact of 100,000 planned satellite launches on observational astronomy

Traditionally a supercomputing project, folks doing climate simulations on Amazon clusters instead

Poignant story of a woman enslaved by John Jay and her miserable end in Paris

Gossipy analysis of palace machinations at Twitter

Great example of a counterintuitive result when inappropriately combining aggregate statistics

Chart and analysis framing inflation in generational terms

Safety cards from airplanes

Details on Wikipedia's surprisingly strong cash position